Ultimate Cameos Leading to Ultimate Possibilities.

So, I just found out something very, VERY cool...

Robert Downey Jr (as Tony Stark) has a cameo in the new "Incredible Hulk" movie.

Couple that with the fact that Sam Jackson has a cameo (as Nick Fury) in the "Iron Man" and I think you can see where this is heading...

A.) Inter-movie Continuity (which is cool as fuck)

and

B.) Live-Action Ultimate Avengers Movie (which will also be as cool as fuck)

I've also heard a rumor that a "super-soldier serum" is used on Tim Roth in "Hulk" which ultimately leads to his abominization. And they basically give the entire history of the "super-soldier serum" and Dr. Erskine, directly from Captain America comics. Again, inter-continuity.

I still don't understand how we can NOT have a Captain America movie, yet. The best plan I ever heard discussed was a two-part film. The first film set in the 1940's, with Cap going through his origin and dealing with Nazi's and giant war-wheels and the Red Skull, ending with Bucky's death and Cap being frozen in ice. The second movie would deal with him being found in the arctic and reviving in contemporary time. A "man out of time" movie. Which would segue perfectly into an Avengers or Ultimates movie. I don't know how feasible that two-part movie structure is, but I sure do love it. I imagine him with his original uniform and the triangle shield in the first movie with muted colors and stilted dialogue and then the big, bold, colorful, modern movie with the circular shield as a weapon as one of the discoveries of the second movie.

It's my hope that by having the studios plant the seeds now with these cameos in this movie, that we'll eventually get the "ultimate" crossover movie that we would all like to see.

Or howzabout a "Daredevil/Ghost Rider/Blade" crossover with Ben Affleck, Wesley Snipes and Nic Cage, going toe-to-toe against some big, demonic baddie?

Or a New York centric movie teaming up the Fantastic Four with Toby Maguire's Spiderman, fighting a big "Cloverfield-Sized" rampaging monster?

Or an Xmen movie that doesn't totally suck ass because the studios rushed it out and DEMANDED character appearances that made absolutely no sense, whatsoever?

It sounds like these new movies are doing it right. Winking nods to each other that do what the first Team-Up comic books needed to do - establish that these characters all live in the same world. Which sets the foundation for what we all ultimately want to see ... a massive, cross-character, movie team-up, ensemble film.


A side-by-side comparison of Ultimate Nick Fury and Sam Jackson.
Yeah, they were pretty much casting the part, when they did the comic, weren't they?

PS. To anyone who would care to cross-reference my anti-movie adaptation rant of a few weeks back, please allow me to have this logical, carefully-considered response -Eat Me.

Sincerely,
Mr.B